Mark Amerika’s work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Whitney Biennial of American Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and the Walker Art Center. In 2009-2010, The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece, hosted Amerika’s comprehensive retrospective exhibition entitled UNREALTIME. In 2009, Amerika released Immobilité, generally considered the first feature-length art film ever shot on a mobile phone. He is the author of many books including remixthebook (University of Minnesota Press, 2011 -- remixthebook.com) and his collection of artist writings entitled META/DATA: A Digital Poetics (The MIT Press, 2007). His latest art work, Museum of Glitch Aesthetics [glitchmuseum.com], was commissioned by the Abandon Normal Devices Festival in conjunction with the London 2012 Olympics. The project was recently remixed for his survey exhibition, Glitch. Click. Thunk, at the University Art Galleries at the University of Hawaii. Amerika is a Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In Fall 2013, he was the Labex-H2H International Research Chair at the University of Paris 8. More information can found at his website, markamerika.com and at his twitter feed @markamerika

Graduate Researcher Zak Loyd is a multimedia artist and IMAP Digital graduate student at the University of Colorado. His work has been featured on Rhizome, at the Austin Museum of Digital art, and various galleries in Texas, Colorado, and New York. In 2009, Zak co-founded the VJ collective “Vidkidz” with his partner Melanie Clemmons. Zak’s most recent work explores layered amalgamations of new and archaic technology to produce formalist net art and video.

Melanie Clemmons is a MFA candidate at the University of Colorado at Boulder's IMAP (Integrated Media Arts Practices) program. Melanie is a practicing net artist and her recent works, including dprkvacation.com and strip-club-girls.com, explore and combine the fantastical with non-fiction themes. She also collaborates with Zak Loyd on their VJ collective known as "Vidkidz" creating live visuals and installations for various genres of music and performance. Her work has been exhibited in art galleries and DIY spaces across New York, Austin, and Denver/Boulder. She is artist-in-residence at the Media Archaeology Lab and her work can be found online at melanieclemmons.com.